Hulking Harting, who delighted fans at the Stadium by leaping hurdles after his victory, claimed he couldn't even get back into the Olympic Village and had to sleep in a train station.

He tweeted on Wednesday morning: "Puuh I just got robbed while I did some work to please athletic fans! I lost all my accredit ion for Olympic village! - no entrance ;("

However, the claims surprised London 2012 head of media Jackie Brock-Doyle, who said, "We can't find anybody that could tell us that he tried to get in to the village last night and was not allowed in.

"There have been incidents where people may have mislaid their accreditation, for whatever reason.

"Normally we talk to the National Olympic Committee of that country and they verify who they are and work with them to get them back to their bed for the night.

Thankfully Harting did not lose his gold medal in the incident. He is due to be presented with it on Wednesday evening, having been given new accreditation to enter the Stadium.

Pole fault

Media captionCuban's pole breaks into three

Some days you wish you could just start again. Cuban pole vaulter Lazaro Borges may have had high hopes but fell to Earth with a bump when his pole broke in two places as he took a vault on Wednesday morning.

He was thankfully unhurt but failed to qualify for Friday's final.

Postboxes get second coats

Media captionSir Chris Hoy's second postbox painted

The Royal Mail has had to work double-time on postbox painting and while some of that is for the right reasons, two have come about because of vandalism.

A second postbox has been painted gold in Edinburgh to mark Sir Chris Hoy's track cycling success, with a box in Hunter Square celebrating Hoy's keirin victory on Tuesday, following last week's team sprint win.

Just two days after the first coat was applied on Monday, the Royal Mail said "substantial amounts of the gold paint are no longer there". A new paint job is expected shortly.

Staff in Sheffield have already repainted a box in honour of local girl Jessica Ennis after a vandal scrawled "Go Jess" across it.

Neigh bother

"Oh wee" [oh dear] as the Dutch would say. The Daily Express and Mirror printed a photograph of the gold medal winning British dressage team of Charlotte Dujardin, Carl Hester and Laura Bechtolsheimer, to commemorate their momentous Olympic win.

Only one problem - the picture was actually of the Netherlands bronze medallists Anky Van Grunsven, Edward Gal and Adelinde Cornelissen.

It seems the root cause may be a mislabelled agency picture which was distributed to journalists.

The images were removed for later editions.

Red, or should that be orange, faces all round.

Transatlantic hero

No, it's not another national mix-up, British decathlete Daniel Awde really has been a running body double for Captain America, performing in scenes for actor Chris Evans in last year's film The First Avenger.